The Real Life Animal Encounters Discussion

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 3:15 pm

The Blue Fox wrote:I've heard of a news hound...but a news fox?

You've never heard of Fox News?

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 11:52 pm

You mean Faux News? I cannot take them seriously. I used to use them as a SLEEP AID at one point.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Sun Sep 28, 2014 12:07 am

Well, your opinion is your opinion.

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Sun Sep 28, 2014 2:40 am

...and don't get me started on that Snow Faux...

The Blue Fox · Post by **The Blue Fox** » Sun Sep 28, 2014 3:06 am

Douglas Collier wrote:
The Blue Fox wrote:I've heard of a news hound...but a news fox?
You've never heard of Fox News?

Oh, poo, I forgot about them. Dang that woulda been a perfect connect-the-dots joke. *facepaws*

Foxstar · Post by **Foxstar** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 2:45 pm

I have yet to see a fox IRL. Lots of birds, now those I've seen.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 5:24 pm

Didn't see a fox, but I did see a deer while driving home from work.

The Blue Fox · Post by **The Blue Fox** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:10 am

So this morning my mom and I decided to go on a quick day out on a train to a town right on the outskirts of Greater Manchester called Stalybridge.
Now, the suberb where we live, called South Reddish, has a station that only has a single train track running through it for reasons I don't really understand. (trust me, it could very easily have two tracks running through there)
A train that goes to Stalybridge goes through it once a week, on Fridays at about half 9 in the morning.
So we're there on the station, waiting for the train to arrive. I have me camera with me and am snapping some butterflies flitting about on a little flower garden the station has.
When all of a sudden, something jumps out from the undergrowth.

What the heck it was doing there I have no idea. we had no idea it was even hiding there until I startled it out.

It ran off too quick for me to take a pic with my camera, though.

I was stood there just going "WHAT?!?" in disbelief many times over.

That makes 9 foxes I've seen in my entire life.

When I came home I came up with a little poem to mark the occasion.

Foxy, foxy, number 9,
On the Reddish Southern Line,
Ran too quick for me to snap,
Well, oh, drat, double drat, triple drat,
Oh, drat.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 5:06 pm

Then you must be really lucky to see 9 foxes where you live!

The Blue Fox · Post by **The Blue Fox** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 9:29 am

I would be REALLY lucky if one actually holds still long enough for me to capture on camera.

Post by **Sleet** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 10:21 am

You should go on a fox photo safari in that area. Maybe you'll find more. :3

The Blue Fox · Post by **The Blue Fox** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 1:00 pm

Well the thing is, knowing my luck, I see one when I least expect it like I did at that station, but when I'm actually hunting them down for snaps they're gonna be absolutely nowhere.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 2:40 pm

The only wild animal we get around here is a squirrel my mother feeds nuts to.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 8:56 pm

What you need to do, Thom, is to make sure you're carrying a camera with you at all times, even when you're not fox-hunting. Then when you see a fox you've got the camera there to grab a pic. Or, you have the best chance of getting a pic in any case.

The Blue Fox · Post by **The Blue Fox** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 5:20 am

Hlaoroo wrote:What you need to do, Thom, is to make sure you're carrying a camera with you at all times, even when you're not fox-hunting. Then when you see a fox you've got the camera there to grab a pic. Or, you have the best chance of getting a pic in any case.

The Blue Fox wrote:...
So we're there on the station, waiting for the train to arrive. I have me camera with me and am snapping some butterflies flitting about on a little flower garden the station has.
...

It was just so unexpected and it just ran off so fast I didn't have a chance to take a pic.

dtlux1 · Post by **dtlux1** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 1:39 am

I wish I saw a fox before, the only animals I get around here are squirrels, deer that come in our yard to eat the pears (I have probably seen at least 25 deer in 2015), and sometimes a turkey or two. I would love to see a fox.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 1:05 pm

This morning, my mother saw a rabbit run across our neighbors yard from across the street. We NEVER get rabbits around here.

Well we might, but our cats probably eat them. >_<

Post by **Sleet** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 4:57 pm

We get tons of deer and bunnies. The deer can be dangerous on the roads though!

Whozjama · Post by **Whozjama** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 10:39 pm

Through a memory I can't quite completely explain, I woke up and was halfway through a tee pee, when for a fleeting second I saw a pair of foxes being scared away by my camp counsellor who was banging pans.

I mostly see tiny birds, squirrels, chipmunks, and Canada geese around my parts. I've seen deer, crayfish and fish on trips though.

JeffCvt · Post by **JeffCvt** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 9:05 am

Sleet wrote:The deer can be dangerous on the roads though!

Between the past two nights, I must have seen about 30 deer in the fields as I was driving home. It's scary when you see them because you don't know where they're going to run, away from the road, or across it.

Radio Blue Heart · Post by **Radio Blue Heart** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 9:44 am

That is true. Deer kill more humans than any other animal in North America by causing car accidents.

Post by **Dissension** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 6:22 pm

In the mid-1990s, deer would stampede through my town. Then the state started issuing off-season hunting licenses. Now they send state troopers to cull the deer a couple times a year, but they're still everywhere.

GreatKitsune · Post by **GreatKitsune** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 9:58 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:You mean Faux News? I cannot take them seriously. I used to use them as a SLEEP AID at one point.

Still better than C-SPAN.

@Dissension

Yeah, around here there's at least one deer crossing sign on every road with 3 lanes or less and 2 miles or more.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 10:18 pm

Dissension wrote:In the mid-1990s, deer would stampede through my town. Then the state started issuing off-season hunting licenses. Now they send state troopers to cull the deer a couple times a year, but they're still everywhere.

We have kangaroos instead of deer here. Kangaroos can also do a lot of damage to your car if you hit them. Some states also have kangaroo culls but it doesn't really make much of a difference to numbers either.

GreatKitsune · Post by **GreatKitsune** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 10:34 pm

Basically avoid hitting large animals no matter where you are.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 1:26 am

Speaking of deer, I just saw three deer run across the street while I was on my way home from college.

Punchy · Post by **Punchy** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 5:40 am

I saw a fox once.
It was in Red Dead Redemption.
I shot it and felt bad :(

Deske · Post by **Deske** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:25 am

Was playing a game, the Long Dark. Shot a wolf with a gun, felt a little bad. But I was hungry and it was threatening my territory. I think I made a coat out of it and I had food for many nights.

deepskycyan · Post by **deepskycyan** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 12:11 pm

Bunnies? Squirrels? Deer?

Please. I've only cockroaches here.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 3:26 pm

I have never seen any cockroaches over here. Probably a testament to how clean the house is. I’m sure I can find one in my sister’s room somewhere though.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 11:59 pm

When it rains hard, I've seen frogs around here. There's a bluebird that lives around here, a few ravens, maybe a cardinal or two. I saw a couple of deer once in our backyard, and I've seen a couple of opossums and raccoons while driving (usually part of the road by then). Also, skunks.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 10:08 pm

Sounds like you live in a pretty cool area!

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:45 am

Where I used to live on campus there were agile wallabies right outside my window. At home in Tasmania I live about 1.5 miles along a gravel road in the middle of nowhere so if I drive home at night or leave early in the morning I see wallabies, rabbits, possums and if I'm very lucky a Tasmanian Devil or a quoll. Driving along there though the day we might see rabbits, wallabies or echidnas and in the summer there's the occasional snake or bluetongue lizard. There's also a whole variety of bird life all year round.

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 3:13 am

I found that a number of foxes were living inside my school, caretakers neglected an area around the kitchen bins and they dug their way in there

Still, they fixed the rodent problem they had, and they are still there, so I guess they are rather appreciated.

Foxes are all over the place where I live, foxes, deer, the occasional stray dog or cat... A quick five minute walk and I can see all the local fauna. Maybe we should all try and get some good pictures and post them?

The Blue Fox · Post by **The Blue Fox** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 5:27 am

I'm starting to think I should change the name of the topic to "Real Life Animal Encounters Discussion" since everyone's talking about theirs here.

Foxstar · Post by **Foxstar** » Sat May 23, 2015 11:55 am

That would be a good idea.

Post by **Render** » Sat May 23, 2015 3:57 pm

Foxstar wrote:That would be a good idea.

You have the power to do so.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat May 23, 2015 3:57 pm

I wouldn't have known that was what this topic was about unless I looked in it.

The Blue Fox · Post by **The Blue Fox** » Sun May 24, 2015 8:22 am

The Blue Fox wrote:I'm starting to think I should change the name of the topic to "Real Life Animal Encounters Discussion" since everyone's talking about theirs here.

Foxstar wrote:That would be a good idea.

Render wrote:You have the power to do so.

Presto change-o

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun May 24, 2015 3:06 pm

I think the name change suits the topic a lot more better than the previous name.